Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.63.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A full length portrait of a Luo man identified as Ocieng, dressed in the manner of an elder attending a funeral ceremony. His hat is probably made of fur and has two warthog teeth (leke njiri or leke mbeche) stuck on it, hanging down in front of his forehead. He is clad in a leopard skin (lpien kwach) and has a pair of skin sandals on his feet. He wears a number of metal wrist rings (minyonge) on both hands. Although he seems dressed for a funeral ceremony, the strip of animal skin worn hanging from his neck does mean some sort of animal has been slaughtered for this man in a cleansing ceremony. This means that he could be a warrior or a man possessed by spirits. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza
Named Person
Ocieng
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.63.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
Activity
Dancing
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.63.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.63.1/>.
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